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Author: fbonomi
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>TLDR: Evidence that Dave Kleiman (the dead partner of Wright) was also a Windows programmer with a very strong background on security.
>He developed a product (called S-Lok) distributed by S-Doc as a security tool (a sort of hardening tool-kit)
>At S-Doc, cryptography was heavily used to develop several products, broadly aimed at reliable and verifiable transmission of data and messages, centred around the idea of a an "unalterable, encrypted audit log system".
>I think this paints Kleiman as a very plausible author of the first Bitcoin software
>When the news that Craig Wright could have been Satoshi emerged, I purchased his book “ The IT Regulatory and Standards Compliance Handbook †in order to search for clues that he was Satoshi.
>I was disappointed. The book is published in 2008; more precisely, it says “this week†referring to February 2008 (p. 644), terefore when Satoshi would have been fully working on Bitcoin.
>There book deals with other subjects, but there are several occasions where something bitcoin-like could have emerged. For example, all mentions to cryptography are rather vague (ok, the book’s subject does not require a LOT of crypto, but nevertheless...). Digital signatures are treated (they are generally called “electronic signaturesâ€), but again nothing that echoes concepts that would return in Bitcoin.
>So, no proof that he was NOT Satoshi, but no evidence that he had similar interests in that period, either.
>I then started giving a look at the books authored by Dave Kleiman. There are a few, generally dealing with Windows security including one co-authored (among others) with Craig Wright .
>Then I stumbled on his book “ Winternals Defragmentation, Recovery, and Administration Field Guide â€
There is an interesting bio of Kleiman in that Amazon page, listing his titles, and containing:
>He has developed a Windows Operating System lockdown tool, S-Lok ( www.s-doc.com/products/slok.asp ), which surpasses NSA, NIST, and Microsoft Common Criteria Guidelines.
>So, we now know that Kleiman was a security expert, was good at Windows security, and had written software for Windows.
>The web site for the company seems down, but archive.org helps here:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20080828130153/http://www.s-doc.com/products/slok.asp
>This is a mirror of the page about the program written By Kleiman on the company’s site, taken in the months he was probably working on Bitcoin.
>The software is described thus:
>The S-LokTM system is a Comprehensive System Hardening Solution that dramatically enhances your OS security by appropriately altering your system registry, security database and file system ACL's.
>(from its technical brochure )
>Nothing too exciting here. A software related to security, but a quite boring one.
>It gets more interesting when you start looking at the line of products that were being developed at s-Doc. This page lists a few PDFs about them: https://web.archive.org/web/20081121211338/http://www.s-doc.com/technical/technical.asp
>mirrored in https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bwr9mVDA8j3LU3ozYm9uOVpuSjA&usp=drive_web
>Basically, it was a suite of products allowing cryptographically secure distribution of data and messages:
>S-docâ„¢ develops products that solve the most urgent business problems of the Information Age. They protect sensitive information during transport over an open network and when at rest during server storage
>It’s nothing specifically bitcoin-like, but yet it’s an environment heavily imbued with cryptography:
>The encryption algorithm (Triple DES, Skipjack or Rijndael/AES at a key length of 168, 96 and 128 bits, respectively), chosen at the time of system installation, is seeded by SITT using an RNG (Random Number Generator). Either a standard hardware white-noise generator or FIPS 186-2 approved pseudo-algorithm generates the unique encryption key for each and every transaction.
>The core of the system seems to have been “an unalterable, encrypted audit log systemâ€.
>S-doc solutions include an unalterable, encrypted audit log system. All transaction activity and user access is available to authorized administrators, originators and compliance officers without exposing the underlying information.
>(reminding of zero-knowledge proof)
>What I also found interesting is the document about S-Doc's applications in finance and insurance:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4YULdyuY7PvR1JjdVhxNFAwdWs/view?pref=2&pli=1
>Once again emphasis is placed on the “unalterable, encrypted audit log system†log.
>In conclusion: There is of course no direct evidence of Bitcoin in the material, but it can be seen that S-Doc was a place where creative uses of cryptography were usual.
>Also, concepts like “unalterable, encrypted audit log system†were common knowledge at S-Doc.
>Dave Kleiman was an accomplished Windows programmer, with exactly the technical capabilities and the cultural history one would expect from the author of the Bitcoin software
>I think he is by far the best candidate for this title.
>Thanks, Dave
Not that Kleiman lacks similar links:
.... He is also a Secure Member and Sector Chief for Information Technology at The FBI’s InfraGard® ....
( from Kleiman' bio in http://www.amazon.com/Winternals-Defragmentation-Recovery-Administration-Field/dp/1597490792 )